from above "when theory fails to meet with reality, you’re generally supposed to give up on the theory and call it a failure. but some theories are special in that they are designed to be untestable or non-interrogatable by those of whom their belief will be demanded."
Sadly, I would say This is the story of the last three years of the "world wide pandemic"...We were made to believe that if we questioned the "narrative" we are bad people. Most did believe this lie.
Not me, though. I always had very bad cattitude....It may have saved my life...
The Woke are the Janissaries (Tranny-ssaries?) of the revolution underway.
Radicals, like the poor, are, and have always been with us. Usually a miniscule, easily ignored subset of the population, they have now become mainstream, and have taken their show across the pond too.
Even more puzzling, the institutions that normally would squash such society-destroying forays into unreality are supporting them. We are purposely being deracinated and divided. This will not end well, I fear. Speak up, speak the truth while you still can.
Ignorance is taking us back to the non thinking tenants of the Middle Ages. The world is flat, disease comes from vapors, the earth is the center of the universe, the eclipse is caused by global warming….( had to throw that last one in). Believe what we tell you or be exiled or locked up! Science can only be tolerated if it supports our thinking!
Maybe it all comes down to lack of education and lack of moral fiber?
There's a certain gnostic quality about the whole CRT "religious" movement. "You are a racist, by our own, revised definition", "We as accusers have the secret knowledge to make you whole again", "Just follow our direction and maybe. you'll be forgiven of society's past sins".
There is a strong aspect of “The Emperor Has No Clothes” in these theories, too. Only the good people understand them, so anyone who wants to be seen as good must claim to understand them. Why do people in the top 10% claim to be oppressed? Because otherwise you can’t be good and understand like good people do. Declaring that something makes no sense is declaring yourself a bad person.
I see this particularly in teenage girls, and their mothers ask me if I can help, because my not-schooled sons are so intact and integrated and okay with themselves. What can I say? In so many cases, these moms either participate in the ritual or were unaware or unable to identify and defang it because when you send your daughters into institutions, they will contort themselves beyond recognition in order to belong there.
I think a large percentage of people know the truth about what absolute woke, DEI, trans bullshit topped with a creamy frosting they are being fed but because of the penalties for not expressing their approval, and joining the Sieg Heil!, they keep their heads down to get along, graduate, get the job, promotions, and pats on the head. But, by doing so they are really complicit in the gaslighting and destruction of others and themselves. They are creating the Timid New World. (not written by Aldous Huxley).
You make a very good point here....we need good stories to hold a our society together. Since about 1960ish we in the West have fixated on a bad story: "Big bad nasty whitey has failed to give 'social justice' to all the people in the world that we don't care about" But there has been a get-out. You can be part of a Good Story....even if you're white....even if you're a man....even if you're a heterosexual. All you have to do is bad-mouth your fellow white peers....and you too can feel good about yourself.
Who is sick to the back teeth of this sixty-year old story? Here's my good story for what it's worth: "What good people do is NOTICE REALITY". (This is what Little Red Riding Hood should have done.) "Good people always make close observation of reality, notice who's a lamb and who's a wolf..... and notice that there are, and always will be, honesty and self delusion, real and faux expressions of generosity of spirit, bullies dressed up as champions of liberty...wise men and fools in other words." https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/are-we-making-progress
I had my first dose of Marxist cognitive dissonance, a slap in the face that something just was not right, in January 1970. I grew up in a fairly upper-middle class area of Atlanta where I was the "poor kid;" my parents chose to overextend their finances so I could go to a top public school. Our public high school was excellent, and with 70% Jewish students also highly competitive. I scored in the 1400's on the SAT, and my score was the 15th highest in the class.
In any event, the Atlanta school system was trying to correct the sins of the past, and since bussing was a non-starter for economic & political reasons, they decided to transfer teachers instead. Of course this came on the heels of the long-tenured superintendent being removed and replaced by a POC with deep roots in Democrat politics.
(As an aside, back then the school principal was the one who hired and fired teachers and staff. After the administrative change, the principal no longer had any power over school personnel, which resulted in mass resignations and retirements, replaced by...yeah, you know.)
So arriving after Christmas break, we found the rumors were correct. Many of our favorite teachers, I mean Real Teachers, not the low-achievement NEA clones of today, were gone and their replacements were all black. Even the football coach, a 25-year veteran with numerous state championships at our school, was gone to a ghetto school.
I felt badly for the new teachers. It was like replacing a fine filet with C-Rations. Our new creative writing teacher, who replaced a Naomi Wolfe clone, could not even spell or use proper grammar. Literally every kid in the class had a far higher IQ than she did. We had kids writing near Shakespearean prose, and she was stuck just past Dick & Jane. It was sad, and this teacher rarely even understood the veiled barbs some kids tossed her way. Really sad. The school had to drop Calculus because there was no one to teach it. Ditto chemistry.
That is when I knew society was cooked. I knew that the kids where these teacher muffins came from were doomed. I also saw how those kids that were in lower classes were screwed, how they would not achieve to the same level us seniors did. I understood "privilege" in a base sort of way, like luck.
I also understood how this entire episode was social engineering, concepts we learned in economics classes in HS, more geared toward taxation but manifested in teacher transfers.
It should come to no surprise the following quarters the school lost 25% of the students, and the 4-5 local private schools exploded, not to mention the excellent teachers who got transferred out found vastly better institutions to shape young minds.
The teacher transfer accomplished nothing. Our school became a joke. The other schools did not improve. The school district had a sharp teacher deficit they never resolved except by scraping the bottom of the barrel of teacher colleges.
Now look at Atlanta schools three generations later, and see what the definition of s#!thole education is.
These people destroy every institution and mind they touch. Look at kids today! Yet the same theories that destroyed minds 50 years ago are the same theories employed today.
Back in The day, if you got caught passing notes in class, you earned detention. Today, you can slug a teacher, or a tranny can rape a girl in the girl's restroom and almost nothing happens.
And still we wonder "what happened?" WE let this happen.
Just a personal anecdote to show this s#!t has been creeping into every pore of the skin of what was American Culture.
One of your best, mr. cat. Ties in with the book I'm reading, The Indoctrinated Brain. Unfortunately the powers that be know exactly what they're doing...
Steve Martin used to do a comedy bit that went something like: "I've got a great joke you can play on a kid. Whenever you're around them, talk wrong. Then when called on in class the kid raises his had and says: 'May I mamu dogface to the banana patch?' And they say the kid needs a special test." This is the joke become reality, and it isn't very funny. Worse, it's almost impossible to talk to someone who has been polluted thus. It's like trying to talk to a schizophrenic: you think you're leading them on a rational discussion path until they circle back to the denied reality. This evil has been deliberately sown in a (so far quite successful) attempt to destroy ourselves from within. It makes me almost glad to know I'm old enough not to be around at the logical conclusion to this debacle.
from above "when theory fails to meet with reality, you’re generally supposed to give up on the theory and call it a failure. but some theories are special in that they are designed to be untestable or non-interrogatable by those of whom their belief will be demanded."
Sadly, I would say This is the story of the last three years of the "world wide pandemic"...We were made to believe that if we questioned the "narrative" we are bad people. Most did believe this lie.
Not me, though. I always had very bad cattitude....It may have saved my life...
The Woke are the Janissaries (Tranny-ssaries?) of the revolution underway.
Radicals, like the poor, are, and have always been with us. Usually a miniscule, easily ignored subset of the population, they have now become mainstream, and have taken their show across the pond too.
Even more puzzling, the institutions that normally would squash such society-destroying forays into unreality are supporting them. We are purposely being deracinated and divided. This will not end well, I fear. Speak up, speak the truth while you still can.
This is not a pipe kids...just treachery of false stories.
I agree we should not just ignore this.
These kids are victims of being given a map that's completely out of touch with the reality of the "territory".
It's almost abuse imo.
Ignorance is taking us back to the non thinking tenants of the Middle Ages. The world is flat, disease comes from vapors, the earth is the center of the universe, the eclipse is caused by global warming….( had to throw that last one in). Believe what we tell you or be exiled or locked up! Science can only be tolerated if it supports our thinking!
Maybe it all comes down to lack of education and lack of moral fiber?
There's a certain gnostic quality about the whole CRT "religious" movement. "You are a racist, by our own, revised definition", "We as accusers have the secret knowledge to make you whole again", "Just follow our direction and maybe. you'll be forgiven of society's past sins".
you see a lotta stockholm syndrome too, where ppl defend those who hurt them to the literal death and attack those who try to help them
explains a lotta psychology during the covid "vaccine" campaign... https://eccentrik.substack.com/p/so-many-are-still-in-denial-about?r=8ypo0&%3Butm_campaign=post&%3Butm_medium=web&%3BshowWelcome=true&triedRedirect=true
There is a strong aspect of “The Emperor Has No Clothes” in these theories, too. Only the good people understand them, so anyone who wants to be seen as good must claim to understand them. Why do people in the top 10% claim to be oppressed? Because otherwise you can’t be good and understand like good people do. Declaring that something makes no sense is declaring yourself a bad person.
I see this particularly in teenage girls, and their mothers ask me if I can help, because my not-schooled sons are so intact and integrated and okay with themselves. What can I say? In so many cases, these moms either participate in the ritual or were unaware or unable to identify and defang it because when you send your daughters into institutions, they will contort themselves beyond recognition in order to belong there.
I think a large percentage of people know the truth about what absolute woke, DEI, trans bullshit topped with a creamy frosting they are being fed but because of the penalties for not expressing their approval, and joining the Sieg Heil!, they keep their heads down to get along, graduate, get the job, promotions, and pats on the head. But, by doing so they are really complicit in the gaslighting and destruction of others and themselves. They are creating the Timid New World. (not written by Aldous Huxley).
You make a very good point here....we need good stories to hold a our society together. Since about 1960ish we in the West have fixated on a bad story: "Big bad nasty whitey has failed to give 'social justice' to all the people in the world that we don't care about" But there has been a get-out. You can be part of a Good Story....even if you're white....even if you're a man....even if you're a heterosexual. All you have to do is bad-mouth your fellow white peers....and you too can feel good about yourself.
Who is sick to the back teeth of this sixty-year old story? Here's my good story for what it's worth: "What good people do is NOTICE REALITY". (This is what Little Red Riding Hood should have done.) "Good people always make close observation of reality, notice who's a lamb and who's a wolf..... and notice that there are, and always will be, honesty and self delusion, real and faux expressions of generosity of spirit, bullies dressed up as champions of liberty...wise men and fools in other words." https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/are-we-making-progress
I had my first dose of Marxist cognitive dissonance, a slap in the face that something just was not right, in January 1970. I grew up in a fairly upper-middle class area of Atlanta where I was the "poor kid;" my parents chose to overextend their finances so I could go to a top public school. Our public high school was excellent, and with 70% Jewish students also highly competitive. I scored in the 1400's on the SAT, and my score was the 15th highest in the class.
In any event, the Atlanta school system was trying to correct the sins of the past, and since bussing was a non-starter for economic & political reasons, they decided to transfer teachers instead. Of course this came on the heels of the long-tenured superintendent being removed and replaced by a POC with deep roots in Democrat politics.
(As an aside, back then the school principal was the one who hired and fired teachers and staff. After the administrative change, the principal no longer had any power over school personnel, which resulted in mass resignations and retirements, replaced by...yeah, you know.)
So arriving after Christmas break, we found the rumors were correct. Many of our favorite teachers, I mean Real Teachers, not the low-achievement NEA clones of today, were gone and their replacements were all black. Even the football coach, a 25-year veteran with numerous state championships at our school, was gone to a ghetto school.
I felt badly for the new teachers. It was like replacing a fine filet with C-Rations. Our new creative writing teacher, who replaced a Naomi Wolfe clone, could not even spell or use proper grammar. Literally every kid in the class had a far higher IQ than she did. We had kids writing near Shakespearean prose, and she was stuck just past Dick & Jane. It was sad, and this teacher rarely even understood the veiled barbs some kids tossed her way. Really sad. The school had to drop Calculus because there was no one to teach it. Ditto chemistry.
That is when I knew society was cooked. I knew that the kids where these teacher muffins came from were doomed. I also saw how those kids that were in lower classes were screwed, how they would not achieve to the same level us seniors did. I understood "privilege" in a base sort of way, like luck.
I also understood how this entire episode was social engineering, concepts we learned in economics classes in HS, more geared toward taxation but manifested in teacher transfers.
It should come to no surprise the following quarters the school lost 25% of the students, and the 4-5 local private schools exploded, not to mention the excellent teachers who got transferred out found vastly better institutions to shape young minds.
The teacher transfer accomplished nothing. Our school became a joke. The other schools did not improve. The school district had a sharp teacher deficit they never resolved except by scraping the bottom of the barrel of teacher colleges.
Now look at Atlanta schools three generations later, and see what the definition of s#!thole education is.
These people destroy every institution and mind they touch. Look at kids today! Yet the same theories that destroyed minds 50 years ago are the same theories employed today.
Back in The day, if you got caught passing notes in class, you earned detention. Today, you can slug a teacher, or a tranny can rape a girl in the girl's restroom and almost nothing happens.
And still we wonder "what happened?" WE let this happen.
Just a personal anecdote to show this s#!t has been creeping into every pore of the skin of what was American Culture.
This is one of the best analyses of current narrative-pounding I have ever read. Superb and distressing in its accuracy. Thank you, GM.
One of your best, mr. cat. Ties in with the book I'm reading, The Indoctrinated Brain. Unfortunately the powers that be know exactly what they're doing...
This is a great explanation for why there is so much *rage*. Not just, we want social policy X, but mindless, seething rage.
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire
This is why we cannot simply ignore them. They will not ignore us. To our great peril.
Steve Martin used to do a comedy bit that went something like: "I've got a great joke you can play on a kid. Whenever you're around them, talk wrong. Then when called on in class the kid raises his had and says: 'May I mamu dogface to the banana patch?' And they say the kid needs a special test." This is the joke become reality, and it isn't very funny. Worse, it's almost impossible to talk to someone who has been polluted thus. It's like trying to talk to a schizophrenic: you think you're leading them on a rational discussion path until they circle back to the denied reality. This evil has been deliberately sown in a (so far quite successful) attempt to destroy ourselves from within. It makes me almost glad to know I'm old enough not to be around at the logical conclusion to this debacle.